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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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